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1974

Single volume Obras completas includes a fictive encyclopedia entry on Borges from 2074. La Opinión publishes a Spanish translation of "An Autobiographical Essay."

Locations

Borges continues living at Calle Maipú 994, CABA.

Historical Context

Perón dies. Maria E. Martínez de Perón becomes president. Final split between the left and right wings of Peronism. Powerful Minister José López Rega creates the Argentine Anti-communist Alliance (AAA), a right-wing paramilitary group focused on the physical elimination of leftist militants and guerrillas. Montoneros and ERP escalate their armed actions. Public universities are intervened by the Peronist government and purged of leftist and opposition faculty and students.